Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

Think of another as you want God to think of you.

Ego is the world's worst narcotic

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

I don't represent corporations. There's people that own corporations, but I represent the people of my district.

I think most women we go through a stage in relationship, this is men and women where I'm trusting you, but now I got to test it, I have to make sure your the real deal.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.